Fr Pascual Chávez in mourning

(ANS – Rome) – On his return from his travels in India, the Rector Major received news of the death yesterday evening 11 November of his brother Miguel Angel 68 years of age, at Monterrey following a heart attack.

In the space of two years this is the fourth time that Fr Chávez has received the sad news of the death of a brother. Miguel Angel Chávez Villanueva was married and had five children.

In the name of the Councillors and of the Salesians in the Generalate the Vicar of the Rector Major, Fr Adriano Bregolin, expressed condolences at the sudden loss experienced by Fr Chávez and assured him of a special remembrance in the prayers of the members of the Congregation and of the Salesian Family.

A page on which to leave messages of condolence has been opened on the sdb.org site.